The Road to Emmy
Earning historic distinction as the first non-English language series to be nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, the dystopian Korean thriller Squid Game (Netflix) centers on people who are so desperate for money that they consent to compete in a series of schoolyard games...
“This is my Twin Peaks,” recalled production designer Jeremy Hindle, hearkening back to what he felt after reading a script for Severance (Apple TV+) penned by series creator Dan Erickson. “The tone was so strange and the story so good, I was immediately enamored.”
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Oscar Wilde famously said, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
There’s some truth to that in Hacks (HBO Max) where we see series artisans benefiting from an on-set dynamic that in one key respect mirrors the behavior of the characters they helped to create....
Back in February, Succession (HBO) earned the unique distinction of sweeping the DGA Awards’ dramatic series category nominations--Kevin Bray for the “Retired Janitors of Idaho” episode; Mark Mylod for “All the Bells Say”; Andrij Parekh for “What It Takes”; Robert Pulcini and Shari...
From New Girl to golden girl turned fallen girl--that’s the wide-ranging, protagonist-driven ride navigated by Elizabeth Meriwether who prior to this current awards season was perhaps best known for her lengthy tenure as a writer and executive producer on New Girl, a smart,...
Editor Nena Erb, ACE earned her third career Emmy nomination last week; it was for the “Choice, Okay?!” episode of Insecure (HBO) directed by Kevin Bray. This marks her second such nod for Insecure in the Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series category,...
As in years past, a healthy percentage of those SHOOT interviewed relatively early on for its The Road To Emmy Series--as well as prior TV Awards Season preview coverage and our Cinematography & Cameras features--has gone on to land nominations from Television Academy voters. For...
The Emmy Award nominations announced Tuesday included some snubs and surprises. "This Is Us" walked away forever without a top nomination and Nathan Lane made history as the most-nominated best comedy guest actor in Emmy history.
Here's our rundown.
NOT JUST A GAME...
"Succession" received a leading 25 Emmy nominations Tuesday, but the satirical drama about the rich and ruthless has a landmark rival in "Squid Game," the first non-English language series to vie for television's top honor.
"Squid Game," a South Korea-set drama in which the poor are...
What do you do for an encore when the first season of a series receives critical acclaim to the tune of 13 Emmy nominations and three wins? That was a prime challenge facing the creative minds and artisans behind Russian Doll (Netflix).
The answer in part resided in adopting and...